Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/huge_memory: replace can_split_folio() with direct refcount calculation

[Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>]

On 2025/11/25 5:08, Zi Yan wrote:
> On 24 Nov 2025, at 14:22, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
> 

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> 
> BTW, this page flag reuse is really confusing. I see PG_checked is
> PG_owner_priv_1 too and __folio_migrate_mapping() uses folio_test_swapcache()
> to decide the number of i_pages entries. Wouldn’t that cause any issue?
> ext4 does not release_folio() for migration when PG_checked is set,
> ubifs clears PG_checked in release_folio(). I have not checked all other FS
> yet. Maybe later.

folio_test_swapbacked() is also checked in folio_test_swapcache:

static __always_inline bool folio_test_swapcache(struct folio *folio)
{
	return folio_test_swapbacked(folio) &&
			test_bit(PG_swapcache, folio_flags(folio, 0));
}

So IMHO the reuse of this page flag should work fine.

Thanks.
.